On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:52:42AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

Hello Sandeep,

On 07/29/20 05:03, Sandeep Dhanvada wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to test capsule based FMP device upgrade in OVMF.

This is out of scope for the current OvmfPkg platforms.

Clearly I'm not saying that capsule updates "should not" be supported by
OVMF "ever", all I'm saying is that for such use cases, a new OvmfPkg
platform DSC will be necessary.

(If the intent with the capsule update is to upgrade the firmware add-on
devices *only*, that is, not the platform firmware itself, then *maybe*
the current OVMF DSC files could accommodate that, introducing a new
(default-off) build feature flag. I'm not sure.)

Mike Kinney and Peter Jones have done some work around capsule updates
in OVMF; I'm CC'ing them. Perhaps you can use their results for your
experiments.

I have a couple of ancient branches in various states of disrepair that
were used as part of an API tester at one point. It's from before FMP
was really driving anything and before the ESRT data structures were
fully pushed to edk2, and such they are clearly well unmaintained and
have totally rotted, but if there's any chance they help at all, they're
at:

https://github.com/vathpela/edk2/tree/fake-capsule
https://github.com/vathpela/edk2/tree/fake-capsule-0
https://github.com/vathpela/edk2/tree/fake-capsule-1

Thanks
Laszlo

I have a PCI NIC Adapter with PCI Passthrough enabled and need to
upgrade firmware for this NIC in ovmf. I generated capsule file with
embedded driver as FMP driver and payload as option ROM image.

I tried CapsuleApp.efi from OVMF Shell and also fwupdate tool from
Linux.

Below is the observation with CapsuleApp.efi:
1. "CapsuleApp.efi -E" command from ovmf shell, but, it is not displaying any entries.
2. "CapsuleApp.efi -D <CapsuleFile>" is showing Capsule Header, Fmp Header and Fmp Payload Image Header properly.

Below is the observation with fwupdate tool in Linux:
1. CONFIG_EFI_ESRT is enabled in Kernel Config.
2. /sys/firmware/efi sysfs entry is created, but, there is no esrt entry under this.
3. Since there is no esrt sysfs entry, "fwupdate -s" command is showing that firmware updates are not supported.

Please let me know how to add ESRT table in OVMF so that i can upgrade device firmware.

--
Peter